studio four: Initial Research

_Initial Brief

Light is Origin.

Light allows us to progress and endeavour through our lives, as a consequence we can perceive through sight everything around us.

A performance that involves light as a vital element to life. Light in relation to our bodies - through our conscious minds we are aware of light, it enables us to perceive and is perceivable by us. Light originates through the mind and touches the heart, it flows through to our limbs giving us the power to explore and create. With this power we can build up mighty structure around us.

The performance presents a story, starting with the glow of light woven into the garments beginning at the head and spreading down to the heart and then to the limbs. This then encompasses the floor projecting light wherever the dancers move. They then build up the walls from the ground, and the light illuminates and emphasises the structure of St Annes. The participants have a liitle light that is given to them before the start. A piece of jewellery that can be worn as a necklace, belt or wrapped around to be a ring or bracelet, this progressively glows brighter as the performance goes on, awakening their perception on light.

Theory Precedent

Fabrizio Crisafulli investigates light as a natural element not a technique -

"..to entrust light with a role similar to that which it occupies the natural world. Not by imitating it, but by considering light at a vital substance - an essential. primal and emergent element.."

"I believe that light does not belong only to the technical or visual domain. Its fundamental functions are to shape time and space, to become a dramatic structure, and serve as a means of unfolding or producing 'actions'."

"..light is not a technical element 'projected' onto the production, but becomes a component of the relational place itself: woven into the actions, time, spaces, forms, sounds and words that define themselves through their relationship with each other. In relation to these elements, light is both origin and consequence. From the beginning it is considered an active and formative factor."

"Light also acknowledges the pre-existing physicality of the site. It does therefore not intervene purely as 'illumination' but seeks an exploration of the site's essence in order to both adhere to the original identity of the site while transforming it. Light is born from the objects, form the architecture and from the landscape - shaping itself from these."

What are the various spaces for -

_The public (front of house)

_The audience (performance space/s)

_The technicians (back of house: technical zones

_The performers (stage/s: dressing rooms etc.)

How do the various zones separate or intersect?

Visual Precedent

Kyeok Kim

Investigates Jewellery as a second skin -

"Drawing Light illustrates the emotional process of discovering light as interacting with body movement of finding, wearing, and touching light. It creates the sensorial space and visualizes immaterial space to material space relationship between body's emotional movement worn by light and place. It follows the spatial movement and extends to emotional space."

For video visit www.kyeokkim.com - Performance _Second Skin by Lighting.

Performance genre -
Dance
_has the ability to tell stories and present concepts over time.

Relationship between performers and audience/spectators/participants -
_Performers transfix their observers, what happens when the participants are suddenly aware that they have been slowly involved in the performance?

What are the spatial dynamics and how do they inform structure, materiality and the immaterial -
_Light

Light is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye. Five primary properties of light are intensity, frequency or wavelength, polarization, phase and orbital angular momentum. Light, which exists in tiny "packets" called photons, exhibits properties of both waves and particles. This property is referred to as the wave–particle duality.